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Barlaea Persoonii Sacc. Syll. Fung. VIII., p. 117. 
Ascophore sessile on a narrow base, hemispherical then expanded, 
disc plane or undulate, 4-8 mm. across, wholly pale-dingy amethyst, 
glabrous, margin rather obtuse, flesh waxy-brittle 1-5-2 mm. thick ; 
excipulum parenchymatous, cells globose or elongated 35-60 p (longest 
diameter), hyaline, cortex thin of not more than 1-2 layers of globose 
cells 20 in diameter ; hypothecial cells small and almost indis- 
tinguishable in outline; asci cylindrical, 200-210 X 13-14 My apex 
rounded, pedicel narrow ; spores eight, uniseriate, hyaline, spherical, 
rough, 1-2 guttulate, 9°5-11 w in diameter ; paraphyses cylindrical, 
simple or branched, septate, hyaline, 3-4 u thick, apex always curved. 
Hebden Bridge, July 1899, Mr. Needham. Mr. C. Crossland in 
Naturalist, January, 1900, p. 9. 
Maollisia betulicola Rabenh. Krypt. Flora L,, part 3, p. 538. 
Apothecia small about 4 mm. across, gregarious on whitened spots, 
sessile, at first closed, globose, then open, and disclosing the pale- 
reddish or yellowish disc ; the exterior black, scabrid or substriate, 
the margin slightly. lacerate ; asci oblong or clavate, acuminate at 
the tips, attenuated downwards to the stalk 56x 8 p, 8-spored ; spores 
obliquely 2-seriate, oblong, obtuse at both ends, colourless, guttulate, 
8-10 x 3 p- 
On decaying birch leaves, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, June 1899. 
Collected by Mr. J. Needham. Naturalist, Jan. 1900, p. 7. 
Dasyscypha Richonii Mass.=Trichopexiza Richonii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 
Vol. VIIL, p. 415. 
Ascophores minute, ‘2-"5 mm. wide, gregarious, entirely red, hairy, 
sessile, fleshy, cup-shaped, the exterior and chiefly the margin covered 
with pointed septate hairs 50-120 u long, 3-5 thick at the base, 
thinner at the apex; paraphyses delicate, filiform, sparsely septate, 
not thickened at the tips, colourless about 2 thick; asci broadly 
clavate, 8-spored 40-459; spores minute elliptical-fusiform, 
biguttulate 5-7 x 2-2°5 mL. 
On rotten wood. Found in Mulgrave Woods, Yorkshire, Sept. 
1900. Mr. Gibbs. Naturalist, Nov. 1900, p. 341. 
Belonium Sacc. Consp. gen. Disc., p. 7, 1884. 
Apothecia sessile or shortly stalked, waxy-leathery, saucer-shaped, 
when dry rolled inwards and closed, black or brown, smooth or some- 
what downy, the margin often with short black projecting hyphae ; 
asci elongate 8-spored ; spores elongate-fusiform or elliptical, 2-many- 
septate, colourless ; paraphyses thread-like. 


